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Neuroscience and psychology news and views.Sun, 02 Aug 2015 12:59:22 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Idiothttp://mindhacks.com/2012/11/20/the-relative-consuming-disease/#comment-48622
Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:54:30 +0000http://mindhacks.com/?p=25037#comment-48622I might add the Wikipedia entry for Alpers’ colleague Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, regarding the statement in the referenced article “Alpers stood by — and remains — fiercely defensive of Gajdusek over a murky episode in later years where he was disgraced and jailed for a year for child molestation. He died in 2008:”

It reads:

“In the course of his research trips in the South Pacific, Gajdusek had brought 56 mostly male children back to live with him in the United States, and provided them with the opportunity to receive high school and college education. He was later accused by one of these, now an adult man, of molesting him as a child.

Gajdusek was charged with child molestation in April 1996, based on incriminating entries in his personal diary and statements from a victim. He pleaded guilty in 1997 and, under a plea bargain, was sentenced to 12 months in jail. After his release in 1998, he was permitted to serve his five-year unsupervised probation in Europe. He never returned to the United States and lived in Amsterdam, Paris, and Tromsø. Gajdusek’s treatment had been denounced from October 1996 as anti-elitist and unduly harsh by controversial Edinburgh University psychologist Chris Brand.[5]

The documentary The Genius and the Boys by Bosse Lindquist, first shown on BBC Four on June 1, 2009, notes that “seven men testified in confidentiality about Gajdusek having had sex with them when they were boys”, that four said “the sex was untroubling” while for three of them “the sex was a shaming, abusive and a violation”. One of these boys, the son of a friend and now an adult, appears in the film. Furthermore, Gajdusek openly admits to molesting boys and his approval of incest.”